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    References: Bournot-Trites‚ M.‚ & Belanger‚ J. (2005). Ethical dilemmas facing action researchers. The Journal of Educational Thought‚ 39(2)‚ 197-215 Bhandari‚ Mohit‚ M.D.‚ M.Sc. (2010). Research questions‚ hypotheses and objectives. Canadian Journal of Surgery‚ 53(4)

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    that the applicant is better off avoiding a program in which he or she might fail. It explains the company’s policy as logical rather than arbitrary. It offers no apology for the decision because no one is at fault. It avoids negative personal expressions (such as "You do not meet our requirements") Continue with a Clear Statement of the Bad News Second‚ use a conditional (if or when) statement to imply that the audience could have received‚ or might someday receive‚ a favorable answer ("When

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    soccer star David Beckham. In many interviews‚ television shows‚ movies‚ novels‚ and performance scripts‚ dialogue is used to show the different personalities of characters. In ‘The Club’ David Williamson uses colloquialism‚ slang‚ clichés‚ anecdotes‚ idiomatic expressions‚ satire‚ sarcasm and irony to show the different personalities and desires of the characters Ted‚ Jock‚ Gerry‚ Laurie‚ Danny and Geoff. Teds repetitiveness is used to show that he feels anxious and insecure about approaching and

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    meaning. Today‚ popular expressions like epic and brilliant are used to express a more modest meaning than their traditional uses. Brilliant actually means clever‚ and epic actually means surprising. The author explains‚ “Such is our need to imbue our words with force and significance‚ that we use hyperbole to entice people to pay attention – and the hyperbolic terms gradually normalise.” The same tendency can be seen in numbers as well. Once giving 110% became cliché‚ people started insisting

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    constant exposure is the catalyst for the stress placed on both girls and boys. To them the statement “outward beauty is transient‚ but inner beauty is lasting” is seen as a cliché that is constantly used by their elders to instill them with confidence in themselves. Seldom do they realize that this so called “overused expression” is of monumental importance and should be considered one of the many laws of life. How many times have we looked in the mirror at our own faces and felt that we didn’t measure

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    “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” by Katherine Anne Porter “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” by Katherine Anne Porter‚ is structured from Granny’s rambling thoughts‚ which switch back and forth in time. Porter uses this rather loose structure first and foremost to entertain the reader. Porter challenges the reader by writing a story set entirely in one scene but creating a structure that follows the twists and turns of the main character’s thoughts. Although the actual events of the story never

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    main character is a "whiny‚ rich" girl who fights demons ‚ many people believed it would be exactly like the film (of the same name) which came out five years before the television show first aired in 1997. The film (starring Kristy Swanson) was trite and "airy"‚ and yet the television series proved those non-believers wrong. In a stereotypical world within the culture that the show represents‚ Buffy is doing a man’s "job". She is fighting creatures double her size‚ and killing them. She is

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    MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN L.N. GUMILEV EURASIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF PHILOLOGY Department of theory and practice of foreign languages COURSE PAPER Theme: “EXPRESSIVE FUNCTION IN THE PUBLICIST STYLE” Major: 050119 “Foreign Language: two foreign languages” Written by: Astana – 2012 Contents Introduction 1. The style and types of stylistic

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    In thinking about what I would like to communicate with you all this week the charter trite of the month RESPECT keep coming back to me over and over again. As adults we know how we define respect and how we would like it displayed to us and why it is important to us. For example‚ my definition of respect is; Think good things about who a person is or how they act based on there deeds‚ character and how they conduct their lives everyday even when no one else is looking. I also know how I would like

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    she was walking alone the edge. The frog was drained by a giant water bug. From the stylistic point of view the text falls into two parts. In the first part of the story the author uses a lot of literary stylistic devices such as epithets‚ trite metaphors and similes. For example metaphors: Frogs were flying all around me; similes: like a schematic diagram of an amphibian; like a deflating football; like a kicked tent. The author uses a lot of cases of epithet: it was a monstrous and terrifying

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